Weyl and Zariski chambers on projective surfaces

Abstract

Let $X$ be a nonsingular complex projective surface. The Weyl and Zariski chambers give two interesting decompositions of the big cone of $X$. We study these two decompositions and determine when a Weyl chamber is contained in the interior of a Zariski chamber and vice versa. We also determine when a Weyl chamber can intersect non-trivially with a Zariski chamber.

15 pages; minor revisions, a new reference; to appear in Forum Mathematicum